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Rare First Edition of "one of the most influential books of the 20th Century" The Lonely Crowd
RIESMAN, David with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer.
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950.
First edition of this landmark work. Octavo, original cloth. In near fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 120191
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Rare first edition of Walter Browning or The Slave's Protector
Walter Browning; or, The Slave’s Protector. Founded on Fact.
Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Store, 1856.
First edition of this anti-slavery tract. 12mo, original publisher's cloth, yellow endpapers, engraved frontispiece. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 142106
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First Editions of The Political Economy of Hunger
DREZE, Jean and Amartya Sen.
The Political Economy of Hunger.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
First edition of this classic work by the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Octavo, original boards, 3 volumes. Each volume is near fine in near fine dust jackets. First editions are uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 144378
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"THE GREATEST ART OF THE WORLD WAS DONE FOR ITS PLACE AND IN ITS PLACE": FIRST EDITION OF NANCY MCCLELLAN'S THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF DECORATIVE WALL-TREATMENTS
MCCLELLAND, Nancy.
The Practical Book of Decorative Wall-Treatments.
Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, 1926.
First edition of Nancy McClelland’s authoritative work on interior design. Octavo, original decorated cloth, frontispiece in color with tissue guard present, eight other illustrations in color and 206 in doubletone. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice example, uncommon in the original dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 132062
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Limited Edition of Tristram; Signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson
ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.
Tristram.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.
Signed limited edition of this popular Pulitzer prize-winning Arthurian narrative poem. Octavo, original publisher's half cloth, top edge gilt. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the limitation page, this one is number 167. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. From the library of Frank Irving Fletcher, a prominent freelance copywriter of advertising who famously wrote in his autobiography 'Lucid Interval,' “The aim of modern advertising is not to make people think, but to save them the trouble and effort of thinking."
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145430
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"And so I am a revolutionary, and a most reluctant one": First Edition of The Reluctant Revolutionary; Signed by Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward.
The Reluctant Revolutionary.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1960.
First edition of Teller's classic work on the role of the scientist in the nuclear age. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edward Teller on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146105
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"And so I am a revolutionary, and a most reluctant one": First Edition of The Reluctant Revolutionary; inscribed by Edward Teller
TELLER, Edward.
The Reluctant Revolutionary.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1960.
First edition of Teller's classic work on the role of the scientist in the nuclear age. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author Edward Teller on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146178
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing will appear to man as it is, infinite": First Edition of Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception
HUXLEY, Aldous.
The Doors of Perception.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1954.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper Jacket design by John Woodcock. A very nice example.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 146401
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Collection of first editions signed by children's book author Raymond Briggs
BRIGGS, Raymond.
Selected Works of Raymond Briggs.
London: Various Publishers, 1973-2001.
Fine collection of first editions and early printings with two signed by children's book author Raymond Briggs. Quarto, four volumes, original boards and wrappers, illustrated. The collection includes a Picture Puffin edition of The Mother Goose Treasury inscribed by the author (London: Picture Puffin, 1976), a Picture Puffin edition of Jim and the Beanstalk inscribed by the author (London: Picture Puffin, 1973), a first edition of Unlucky Wally (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987), and a first edition of Ivor the Invisible (London, Channel 4 Books: 2001). Each volume is in near fine to fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 117655
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First edition of Richie Unterberger's Turn! Turn! Turn! the '60s Folk-Rock Revolution; inscribed by him
UNTERBERGER, Richie.
Turn! Turn! Turn! the ’60s Folk-Rock Revolution.
San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2002.
First edition of Unterberger's comprehensive survey of '60s folk-rock. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, signed by songwriter Donovan Phillips Leitch and inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Glenn, Enjoy the book and thanks for all your support Richie Unterberger." The recipient, Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975, an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art, music, film, photography, design and fiction. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 119884
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IMRE KERTESZ’S NOBEL PRIZE SPEECH; SIGNED BY HIM
KERTESZ, Imre.
A Stockholmi Beszed (Nobel Lecture).
Budapest: Magveto, 2002.
First edition of the author's Nobel Speech. Small octavo, original cloth. Signed by Imre Kertesz on the title page. In fine condition. Uncommon.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 3823
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"If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it": Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro
[HEMINGWAY, Ernest; Gregory Peck; Susan Hayward; Ava Gardner].
Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro Theatre Lobby Card Poster.
20th Century-Fox Film Corp., 1952.
Rare original lobby card poster for the 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro produced exclusively for display in theatres. One page, printed in color, featuring a still from the film of Peck and Hawyard embracing. In fine condition.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 124199
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First Edition of A Dance with Dragons; Signed by George R.R. Martin
MARTIN, George R.R.
A Dance with Dragons.
New York: Bantam, 2011.
First edition of the fifth novel in the author's classic series. Octavo, original half boards, illustrated endpapers. Signed by the George R.R. Martin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Stevenson. Jacket illustration by Larry Rostant.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125854
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First Edition of A Golfer’s Life; Signed by Arnold Palmer
PALMER, Arnold .
A Golfer’s Life.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1999.
First edition of the golfing legend's autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth, with 16 black-and-white photographic plates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Jack Best Wishes Arnold Palmer." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Written with James Dodson.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 140389
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Enderby Outside
BURGESS, Anthony.
Enderby Outside.
London: William Heinemann, 1968.
First edition of the second novel in the author's acclaimed Enderby series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, " The recipient, Rolland Comstock was a noted book collector. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 125843
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"The red sun seemed to tip one end of a pair of scales below the horizon, and simultaneously to lift an orange moon at the other": First Folio Edition of Between the Woods and the Water; Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh.
Between the Woods and the Water.
London: The Folio Society, 2006.
First Folio edition of the author's second book in the author's trilogy that began with A Time of Gifts. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Leigh Fermor on the title page. Fine in a fine slipcase. Illustrated by Mary Kuper.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 38087